Zendaya, Adele, Pete Davidson, and dozens of others have been named in the2022 TIME100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people serving important roles in entertainment, politics, sports, and business, among other fields. The list is sorted into sections of artists, innovators, titans, leaders, icons, and pioneers. This …
Read More »Billy McFarland's Duped Fyre Fest Investor Thinks It's a 'Joke' He Left Prison Early
Billy McFarland, the man behind the doomed Fyre Festival in 2017, was partially made a free man when he was released early from prison and transferred this week to a halfway house in Brooklyn, New York. The 30-year-old still had another 14 months to serve on his six-year sentence for …
Read More »The TikTok Dance Is Back, Thanks to Lizzo's 'About Damn Time'
In spring 2020, it’s very likely that most people in your life attempted to learn a TikTok dance. There were many to choose from on top of stay-at-home orders where learning TikTok dances was the most physical movement many people were doing each day. The app became known as the …
Read More »SpaceX Flight Attendant Says Elon Musk Exposed Himself, Offered Her a Horse: Report
Elon Musk has been accused of exposing his penis to a flight attendant for SpaceX, the aerospace company Musk founded. According to Business Insider, documents show that the attendant who is not named was paid $250,000 by the world’s richest man to settle the sexual misconduct claim against him in …
Read More »Fyre Festival Swindler Billy McFarland Receives Early Release from Prison
Billy McFarland, the brains behind the infamously fraudulent Fyre Festival, has been released from federal prison over a year before the completion of his sentence, prison records show. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ online inmate search, McFarland was released into the custody of New York’s Residential Reentry Management, …
Read More »U.S. Women's Soccer Team Victorious in Equal Pay Battle With 'Historic' New Agreement
After decades of pay inequality — and a six-year legal battle that ended with a settlement earlier this year — the U.S. Women’s National Team revealed Wednesday that they’ve entered in a new collective bargaining agreement that ensures they’ll be paid the same as the U.S. men’s soccer team. For …
Read More »Bill Cosby Fails to Derail May 23 Trial, Calls Accuser's Changed Timeline an 'Ambush'
With less than a week to go before jury selection starts in Judy Huth’s sexual battery case against Bill Cosby, the disgraced comedian’s lawyers made a last-ditch attempt Tuesday to kill her long-delayed California civil case on the grounds that she recently shifted the date of his alleged attack at …
Read More »Katherine Massey, Who Was a 'Powerful Voice' for Civil Rights, Killed by Buffalo Shooter
Katherine “Kat” Massey was a strong advocate for civil rights and education for Buffalo‘s Black community. On Saturday,white supremacist teenager Payton Gendron, who has been identified as the alleged shooter, killed her and nine otherswhile they shopped in a supermarket in their predominantly Black neighborhood. It was thedeadliest mass shootingof …
Read More »Buffalo Mourns 10 Killed in 'Racially Motivated Hate Crime' at Market
Updated: May 15, 8 p.m. ET Police released the names of the 10 people killed during a racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York grocery store on Saturday afternoon. The victims of the attack, which Erie County Sheriff John Garcia described as “pure evil,” include Aaron Salter, 55, …
Read More »Elon Musk Says Twitter Deal Is 'On Hold,' Citing Spam Accounts
Elon Musk tweeted on Friday morning that his deal to take control of Twitter is currently “on hold,” but that he is “still committed to acquisition.” The reason for the delay? Musk claims he wants to confirm Twitter’s claim that spam and fake accounts make up less than five percent …
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